The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-23 00:00:00

CAMB IA!TION DINNER. (From a. Morning ConterepetV.) Yesterday evening e s grand dienver was given at the Town Hall, to celebrate 'ihe election of Thomas Hovel!, Esq., the first Mayor of Cambridge Munici mbridge c h osen un d er t h e prov i sions of 'pal Reform Act. The number of guests was u pwards "of 240, comprehending nearly all the most distin guishe -ti Reformers of the borough and county. Among thc, mor, prominent guests, we noticed the Right Hon. „spring 14 ..ite and Mr. Pryme, the Members for the boroteii ; Mr. Townley, one of the Memberi for the county ; Mr. Alston, tone of the Members for Hertfordshire ; Mr. Gunning, jun., the new Town-Clerk ; Professor Musgrs.sr e , Dr. Lam, the Rev. T. S. Hughes, the histerirea ; Messrs. Fo r dh am , N ash, Martin, Ashton, Norris„ R ev . G. A. Bessw n , R ees , Thomas, Hovell, jun., We.ad ; Fordham, &c. &c. The Mayor presided. After a most excellent dinner, the usual loyal toasts were drunk with accust'imed honours. " The health of the Princess Victoria" and that of " The Duke of Sussex" were received with peculiar enthusiasm. The CHAIR.MAN then rose to propose the health of his I.lajesty's Ministers.—(Loud cheers.) To them the gra titude of the whole country was due for the noble manner in which, at a most critical neriod, they had come forward to undertake the reins of Government, and rescue the tountry from its impe;ading perils. What that Ministry had done, the whole, +assembly looked upon with the greatest gratitude and de„ s g . ht. Throughout their honourale and glorious career they had had to contend with difficulties opposed to t l ,tem from all quarters—(hear)—but all these they had overcome by quiet, peaceable, but st ea dy an d they perseverance. It was under one of their e,;loriotte measures that the Reformers of Cambridge now, for the first time, met together in their Town-hall. Those who talked of a re-action in the public mind had only t!, - , look at the result of the elections under the Mnicipa Reform Bill i n Cambridge, and almost every other bo rough and city of England, to sea their prophetic asser tions triumphantly confuted. The toast was drunk with the ,wramest enthusiasm. Tkie CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Undoubtedly, S -,at f ir., you and I have oft en met ; b ut allow me to say, tlrequent as those me e ti ngs h ave b een, and ready as It have ever found you to extend to me the hand of friendship, I grasp that hand with new and more elevated feel ings, when I view in an old and valued friend the first dfruits of the Municipal Refosen Bill.—(Cheers.) It is es'ut a fe w months sirst e I had th e h onour o f ad ng a public meetin g in this town. On that occa sion you, Sir, did' me, the honour of proposing me at the hustings. I then 'cook the liberty of stating, on behalf of the e Government, that I trusted b e f ore we next met we should see a Bill of Municipal Reform passed into a law that Would people of this t own . o.ve sati s f ac ti on to t h e nowmmeet yeti, and ask, have we re d eeme d our p l e d ge ? thCheer',) Was that a p rom i se li g h t l y ma de ? Have e ‘ bl . '' f 0 igations then contracted been inadequately per ;-I..rtned ?-- (Cheers.) We have met to-day under circum -I,l`74nces of political triumph, and before now ; but to you, r, and to those who work with you —to those who have -4 °Wli this town will I venture to say, that the day which , s 7a 'Placed vou in that chair, and surrounded you with the 1 7 is n who are now associated with you in Council, is a day f;": ie ll the most sanguine amongst us, at times when the nrightest most could have passed across his imagination, Zer contemplated to have lived to see.—( Cheers.) But, f - misuse the word triumph. Triumph is a paltry, and Il i e lnently b ut which a. selfish emotion.—(Cheers.) We look to we look to better things ; and in the present power I:ich ha s been acquired, and in the future extent of that Tower, Wh ich I anticipate, we look to what is better than he tri0,,,,,,, of Perfor,„ r. men, or the success of party —we look to the --affee creatures,` of duties and to th e h a ppi ness o f our fellow -1." of Sir, y o u w ill a ll ow me, i ts a very 7 words, and they shall be confined in e.. - s narrow a .1-°lll Pass as possible, to look back for tile purpose of instruction upon the events connected, with this Bill and with the last . he last Session. It was an eventful crisis w hi c h si of res tored th e present Government to power. It was a cris no common or ordinary c l ' , aracter, more than was that crisi s which hurled them &on:, office.—(Cheers.) The dif ficulties which surrounded, us were unquestionably great. The line of conduct w f ,;ich advisedly and on reflection we „took, I hope and tris s t the people of England will feel to hav e been the jP:si . one. W e did not 'meddle with many L it ?gs• We did. not make promises, or raise great expectations, w hich event might have prevented us from fulfilling. We applied cearselves to one great object, and we so applied our stea to it as not to be driven from it by taunt —not to be ", 41 -H . ..ked from it— no t t o b e f orce d from it. We held firmly ~"::' that one thi ng , an d t h ere b y we achieved municipal re ilrin.—(Great cheers.) Again, Sir, the principle upon Which we p rocee d e d i n t h e preparat i on of that Bill was, I 4 /bod e i n w hi c h we conce i ved i t be most effi cacious. It *as discu sse d i n t h e H ouse o f Commons and carried. It t hen went to another place.—(Laughter) In that other Place it met with a reception not quite so cordial or acquies cent as it was desired. B u t h ere or e l sewhere, I will ever br a shit , will d ea l w i t h an i ndependent and co-ordinate ranch t of th e L eg i s l ature with the same respect and de ice which I trust that branch of the Legislature will deal with the House of Commons. It was rim Bill s h ould be discussed. It was right that g it should ht that t h e c anvassed. It was a m i ghty change in the laws and ie nsti tutions of t hi s country, and God forbid that any constitu tional change should be passed as a matter of course, like a Turnpike Bill, or a Naturalization Bill. The mat ter of the Bill required discussion ; the interests in volved in the measure required it.--(Great cheers.) I say then that it was right it should be scrupulously exa mined, and if necessary, amendr,a, and then to be returned to the Commons. It ryas returned to us, with amend- Inents. And here Imi '!st claim for. the Commons of Great Britain the merit of I:,aving acted as faithful trustees and `l.93ositaries of the, Political rights of the people.—(Cheers.) find there bees' violence, there had there been intemperance, had that been inconsideration on our part, Sir, I well know such a course would not only have been fatal to us as a Part tout what would have been more essential because more., Perman ent i n i ts effects, it would have been fatal to of e r 3341 itsel L—(Hear, he ar .) W e a d m i tte d to the House •9v.4ords that they had a full and unquestionable right to ass our measur e and change its enactments ; but we tiliaitned, on our part, a full right to discuss those amend ents or changes rather—( Hear, and laughter)—which were sent back to us. Sir, we did so ; we did so in a spirit of re- Lference. determination ; erenee. W e but, at the same, with respect and de accepted certain of those amendments. There nanc other s to which we expressed our repugnance—a repug ae not t o b e moderate, and overcome... But finally, by taking a calm, that w • a prudent course, the result has been, that we aree can s h°w to those who are opposed to us, unswayed by petty, paltry, party motives ; end that the predominant incentive act uat • by which we are 1 t ed, is the advancement of the public good.—(Cheers.) sp r i .: tl e ° ll ect that such was the attachment . to our own off ineasur t hat many of us did not, during the progress of . that du ced ,e, relish. the acceptance of any. amendment intro had 0 , '1 the Lords. But had we given way to temper— just 'ere been a word of disrespect spoken of the fair and shotprogative of th e other branch of the Legisl a t ur e, we sen se u have forfeited our claim to your approval as men of the loan``', what i s more i mportant, we should. have lost to,, i -• Has not the event justified the course we then m dr —(Great cheering.) Suppose I were now to have y o . e ssed you, Sir, not for the purpose of congratulating 41, as a s Mayor of Camlnidge and this assembly as burgesses, „ t i as our friends, and as individual electors of the town, ," 4 ,nad t o ,justify myself before you by sonic such address I, B l tlli s - --'" . (es, it is true, we introduced a Bill for Munici -4;4 ,Reform ; but we could not carry it. It has failed ; for Lords have thought proper to alter some of its original i• u i s i i ° ll s." I know that you in your personal kindness, and -(4 have forgiven us ; but yet, as men in your hearts inl consciences, you would have said—" These are very se Ptacticable gentlemen, would they had overcome their at r o uPles n ; but they have preferred to maintain their dignity Ishc i r "Pense." Had we taken any other course than that o u ,, — I we Pursued, we should have distrusted ourselves and th , tl"a.rstires. But, Sir, the point has been secured, and ho ‘ .!1111ph in this great struggle has been complete. And l i vrj llecause the views of the propounders of this Bill the met with the approbation and have been seconded by th e n . ie r e lings of the people of England.--{Cheers.) That is th " ° and of success after all. , These middle classes of ' -e People of England —called to the exercise of the parlia entary franchi se b y the Reform Bill, and of the municipal franchise by the Bill recently passed—will eventually, when t heir minds shall b 0 determined, on due deliberation, upon accomplishing any j ust object, accomplish that object, be the pin li tical combinati ons of men or parties whatsoever they ha s 3"— ena (beers.) I t i s the support of those classes which us to carry this bill. But it has been carried, not by a reluctant Ministry, coerced by a pressure from with .ofut but by a Ministry who' proposed if willingly, and in de ference to the principles upon which they had always acted. Cheers.) The peopl e of Englund love cheerful giver, and have been kind enou g h to l ', .elp ‘ and a port a govern ment that have made, concessio n to public p feeling, not to sait the exigency of the moment ; but because they felt it right, and that such concession mitiit safely be made. If forl may venture to touch upon considerations somewhat ei gn to such a friendly meetin g as this, I should say that In all political crises, as in matter s of Philosophy,you may almost come to the same result by two different of reasoni ng . In the divisions which have taken processesplae in this country, the principle of one partY seems to have been, " concede nothing to the people but that which cannot be refused without danger"—while the principle of the other people which the ' Party has been, " deny nothing to the Peopl e have a just claim to possess."—(Cheers.) But it may be said —not here, but elsewhere—" 'What ! concede all to the people ?" No, Sir, that is not my doctrine. r Con&a, all , to' the people that is just—concede all that is rightful—eoncede all power to the people s of which they are the safest, and w or thi e st depn s tt a titm The iiiOple of Eng land themselves elk nAliktk further. They seek not to overturn=nbt 0eel)oll. they look to thbir own rights, but lookln as they are bound to ,d 6 tn, thOr own rights, they value MO resp4t - 411. the s rlrilitii cheers.), xVlith ilfia I take upon myself to say, that the event Of the late municipal elections fully justify ~. the principle I have laid down.—(Cries of " Hear.' ) • no people have at length got that r.r,beee l i dey l ong desired, and were etosit44l:.'_ , elelm, and which King-, Lordc, and 'Cornmektli ) have given to them ; for be it reeol lecte4 that this Bill has been obtainkk i\4lVotit eiertion or any force beyond the legitilkiatte poWer Of 'the Constitution. And when we fte that blessed Constitution produce such fruits, ie. there a man among us Wh6 dbes not love it the more ?—(Cheers.) But if th'e argument of those who think we have gone tee Par be good for anything, I pro bably at this moment am addressing- a sat of unprincipled Radicals--(Laughter)—bleed-thirsty Revolutionists —men, who one day would dine upon the Church, and the next sup ,ipon the steeple—(Laughter)—men seeking to destroy King, Lords, and Commons, and all for the sake of some fantastic scheme of their own. I presume, Sir, that yOu, as the great administrator of the affairs of this town, possess the emblem of justice—the ancient corporation scales. Let us put the new Municipality of Cambridge in one scale, and the old Municipality in the other—let us consider them by the standard of education, intelligence, property, and in dependence, and I venture to say, that in every case the result would be the same, my friends would sink, which would be the first time they ever did sink ; and our enemies would rise—the first time they ever did rise.— (Laughter and cheers.) Here there has been perhaps the most entire success that could have attended liberal ' principles, and therefore it is said that the new corporate body here, and similar corporate bodies elsewhere, are to be viewed simply as party meetings and associations, not possessing and not deserving the con fidence of the other classes of the community. I must dis cuss this argument, because it is important to consider it not only in reference to Cambridge, but to all the towns in which the operation of the Bill has been similar. It is true that here we have not only a majority, but an unani 7 mity of persons of Liberal principles. But do they enter the,Counsel of this Corporation for party purposes? Do they mistake the reverse of wrong for right ? Do they seek to establish a Liberal domination in the room of a Tory domination, now extinct ? Sir, on behalf of the men who have been called into a new state of municipal existence, I deny and ropudiate the charge. You are about to admi nister the functi ons i n t ru sted to you for the benefit of all, of whom you are the organs, representing no partieu• lar class, however respectable. I know that is the feeling of all those I have the honour of addressing. I know that the future will justify that which I now state, and that the result will be, that you will present practically an entire and perfect contrast to those gentlemen, who being now extinct, come under that most necessary, and, in their case, most salutary protection, which recommends us not to speak in a particular way of the dead.—(Laughter.) It is upon this principle that you arc called upon to perform your functions. 'You are chosen on account of particular shades of opinion, because the mass are of those shades of opinion ; but, being chosen you are bound to administer justice for the common good, and for the benefit of the whole community.—(Cheers.) The character of the individuals will justify my anticipations in this respect, but that which will ensure them the most is the responsibility to the people of those who are chosen. You owe your choice to the free tradesmen of Cambridge. It is that which will give you weight and authority. The people of this town will be your body guards. They will be attentive observers of all your acts, but they will be grateful for the services which will be rendered to them ; and I trust that the new council will form, in the future history of this town, a strong and striking contrast to those who preceded them. I feel ashamed at having occupied your time so long ; and yet, Sir, as you have been pleased to notice me, in conjunction with men of ho nour and integrity—men whose situation in public life has been accepted by them solely and exclusively with a view to the public interests—as you have associated my name with theirs, and haVe noticed their exertions—l feel I should not be just towards you and them, if I did not proceed further.—( Cheers.) We are now approaching an event ful period. You, have been pleased to think that the work of last Session was a great and a good work. You are here assembled not only to commemorate it, but as living evidences of its salutary effects.—( Loud cheers.) But great as that which has been done may be, much remains to be done.—( Cheers.) When I speak of that which has past, I may be allowed to say that those events offer a happy an swer to those who alternately stated to you that the Reform Bill was a barren trunk which could produce no fruit, or was a deadly Upas tree, which could distil only poison. " What (said they) do you expect to come from the Reform Bill ?" and if we replied that we expected something to come from it, you were then donouneed as Revolutionists ; but if it were stated that no results would ensue, then you were called the dupes of a designing polioy. Sir, the first fruits of the Reform Bill have been the Corporation Act. Could that Bill have been carried into a law if we had been encumbered still with schedule A, and schedule B.—(Loud cheers.) Can we ima gine that the former Members for the town of Cambridge, of whom I shall speak always with respect, would have ever been anxious to overthrow the corporation of the town ? I believe, how ever inadequate I may have been as your representative, and however much the zeal and talents of my Hon. Colleague may have failed to accomplish, we have been a little more efficient in overthrowing the old Corporation than those who preceded us.—(Cheers.) Then. Sir, again, the further fruits of the Reform Bill will be good government in Church and State. The Reform Bill has not been revolution—it has not been destruc tive or dangerous to property or life—but has been the means of obtaining a freely constituted assembly of the Municipal Representatives of the people, and which the people were en titled to claim. We see, then, that the first fruit has been the Bill in question. But a first pre-supposes others to succeed. I will not say that the first naturally leads to the last, because • in the series of human affairs a good work, when once com menced, is not so readily terminated—time and circumstances leading on to a succession of measures, each forming a part of one great and beneficial whole.—( Cheers.) We are then to proceed, and succeed, too, I hope and trust, and as I believe we shall—( Loud cheers)—in the great cause of political im provement.—( Cheers.) We, for instance, have to remedy the still existing grievances to which the great Dissenting bo dies of this country are now subject.—( Cheers.) That must be done in the same spirit in which the Municipal Reform Bill has been carried—with firmness and with decision ; and it will be done by his Majesty's Ministers with the greater firmness and greater decision, because they feel that doing justice to the Protestant Dissenters of England, so far from weakening or endangering the Church Establishment to which we below*, will strengthen and defend it by fur thering the cause of justice and of truth, and thereby widen the foundation on which the Church rests, and on which it may depend for permanent protection and support.--( Cheers.) We must proceed to consider also, and on the same principle of firmness and decision grounded in justice, the question of tithes in England. We must endeavour, if possible, to adjust that difficult question so as to insure to the working Ministers that support to which they arc entitled, and at the same time to remove from between them, and their parishioners a fruit ful source of dissension'and enmity, which paraluzes the efforts of the preacher,- and casts.some degree of mistrust in some quarters upon the Established Church itself.,—( Cheers. ) We must proceed in the great work of reform of our Courts of Equity. We must give to the people of England a better, a cheaper, and a more effectual administration of justice.— ( Cheers.) We must, as far as it is in our power to do so, improve and tranquilize Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Gentle-. men, I took the liberty of stating, when our acquaintance began, that I would never profess myself to be, or act as if I were, less attached to Ireland, because I was member for the town of Cambridge. I told you then what my senti ments were, and you responded to those sentiments, and declared that you recognized no separation of interests between the two countries--( Hear, hear, hear, and cheers) —that you felt that we were all brethren, aud that those who raised the cry as between the two parties of the united empire, were the true repealers who sought to over throw the British permanancy of dominion. Now I say that Ireland must be tranquillized—( Loud cries of Hear and cheers)--and I say further that the object which we had in view in our measure of last session was no less the tranquillity of that country than to make an adequate provision for the Pro testant Church of that country.—( Cheers.) If I could take upon myself to reply to the mass of rubbish which I have met with upon this subject, I should detain you much longer than I should have lungs for, or you patience for.---( Laughter.) But allow me to say (for to answer a false imputation it is unne cessary to do more than to make a strict statement of fact, supported as that will be by the consideration of the measure of last session), that whilst we wish to cut off all that is unne cessary in the temporal wealth of the Irish Church, we most carefully, most sedulously, and I will say most effectually make a provision for the adequate instruction of the Protestant com munity of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) And, Sir, unless these two principles can he reconciled I am no Church reformer in Ireland. I wish to do complete and full justice to the vast population of that country, but I never will be a party to any scheme which will leave the Protestant inhabitants of that country without ade quate means of religious education.—(Cheers.) On one oc casion, a very eloquent person, speaking of the Irish Church, said that its condition reminded him of the fable in Roman his tory of Tarpeia. She asked for the golden ornaments, which were granted ler, but she was crushed beneath the weight of the very gold which she had solicited% So it is with respect to the Irish Church. The danger of that Church lies in its ex cess. With that excess lam prepared to deal, but beyond it I will never go. I will never leave the Protestants of Ireland without adequate means of religious instruction. That, Sir, was the object of the measnre of last year. These are a few of the measures to which the earliest attention of the Govern ment will be directed in the next session of Parliament. We shall deal with them carefully, deliberately, and by degrees. And if we should not be able to go quite so quickly as we could wish, still we shall go surely and unflinchingly. We hold to the principle of paring down nothing abandoning no thing that is right, and adopting nothing that we believe to be wrong ; and acting npon this Principle, I believe that the people next session, as they did last, will say to his Majesty's Government, " Gentlemen, you have done your duty, and we are ready asain to trust you." It is .hat principle of duty, whether it affects the Ministers of tile I THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1836. Crown, or whether it elects the humblest individual in so ciety, that itittst ndw be looked to. It is the source not only of all that is elevating and great in charater, but the source of all that contribUtes to human happineSs. And it is because the circle of duty is widely extended in our free empire—it is because each and every man is called upon for the perform ance of public duties—that the formation of character, and fortliation of 'virtue, become the paramount objects of British statesmen ; and this it is which, indeed, distinguisheS us above all the nations of the earth. The Municipal Bill has BRIGHTON-FRIDAY. His Majesty, aeconVanied by Prince Erfiest, drove out this afternoon at his usual litiiii. „ The Duchess of Gloucester, a ccompan i e d bI,: . y Eidi ei- bert Taylor, took a carriage airing thi s morn i ng before luncheon. The Icing. ga , ,T pullence to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter the Princes s Augnsia., ri"6: 7 i dee . kand: Ha N lk e e it t i t le t r hi t s he ni Q or u li e il e gravinn, haw ;,•;I.lcen out-of-door exercise thi s d ay . The foltowing distinguished persons called at the Palace this mottiltigicird William Russell, Vice Admir a l Si r Peter tialkett, Earl and Countess o f Norbury, and th e Ladies Toleri Doctor Adolphus• (Inspector-General of Hospiials), and Sir William and Lady Geary. The Royal diundr patty yesterday evening, by invitation, comprised Sir Mattheiv and Lady Tierney, Mr. Edward Tierney, Earl and Countess of Norbury, and the Ladies Toler, lion, Lawrence Parsons, Mr. Mrs., and Miss Daly, and General I1Cf.lpon•• Mr. Davis returtiad td ;74 130 ace yesterday evening, and joined the Royal Suite. Lord Frederick Fitzclarence will leave Brighton iii a day or two for town, on his way to Aylesbury. i r given you a4gerygative and a power ; but if that prerogau,. and Cr Sbdi r ild ridt tretttipg en,rreg.pond ing sense of dittY, it Will Only be. ri sword raised against, and threatening the liberties of the, country, and not for its protection and advanbernent. I then call upon you, Sir, and do to adminidter tic power tiliieh has been entrusted to you in that enlightened spirit by which the mea sure that conferred that power on you was dictated ; and let evidence of public virtue mark the wisdom of those councils horn which it . emanated. —( Loud cheers). Thanking you for the manner in which you , have received me, and thanking the gentlemen for the manner in which they have listened to an address of, perhaps, rather a myre solemn character than pro perly belongs to a meeting of this friendly description, I shall now close the observations have to make. The topics to which I have called your attention are beyond party considerations. I will fight the battle of party whenever there is a fitting occa sion—( Cheers) ; but addressing you with reference to the fu ture functions of the Corporation of this town, I look to some thing higher than party. I look to the establishment of better, more noble, more enlarged, and more comprehensive principles. —( Loud cheers.) I now conclude by proposing as a toast, " The health of Mr. Hovel!, the first Reform Mayor of the town of Cambridge, and prosperity to Cambridge.—(Load cheering, which continued for several minutes.") • The MAYOR returned thanks, and several other toasts were afterwards drunk, and speeches made, which we are compelled to postpone till our next publication. • The meeting throughout was characterised by the greatest harmony and cordiality. DIRE - PORTENTS (FROM AN IRISH CORRESPONDENT.) There is some mighty stroke impending —some coup de main digne d'un coup de pied—whatever it be, for Mr. Hughes Hughes and Mr. Cresset Pelham have come to Dublin together, in one ship. Such a man as Mr. Hughes Hughes comes not to Dublin for nothing ! Nor is Mr. Cres set Pelham so stomached, like the sea gull, that he should brave the surges in the Race of Holyhead, merely to look up at Nelson's Pillar. 'Both the Hon. Gentlemen came to gether—they both lodge together, even at Gresham's, where you may see them, any evening after six, smelling to the same potato. And mark my word for it—they will both go away together—at least, when one calls for the billithe other will be packing his portmanteau. Do these things portend nothing? Then Hudson and his pony had no mission—M‘Ghee and O'Sullivan, are with out a vocation—ne storm is a brewing when pigs run about with straws in their mouths—nor does rain follow the bray ing of an ass ! But tenzpus prodet. Time, which reveals arcana, will tell why Mr. Cresset Pelham and Mr. Hughes Hughes have come to Dublin. Certain it is, that the Tories give out (and their tone of confidence is quite alarming to all but those who are up to the confident tone of all their givings-out) that the Mi nistry will be turned out on the Address. I have heard this, in sober sadness, from a higher quarter than either Mr. Cresset Pelham or Mr. Hughes Hughes. Let the people and their Representatives lay it to heart. Colonel Sir Frederick Trench has been lying perdue for some time in Ireland. This looks not well. Colonel Sir Frederick Trench is every whit as clever a man as Mr. Hughes Hughes, and as deep a thinker as Mr. Cresset Pel ham ! He it was who proposed to join Westminster-bridge to Wapping, by an arcade. He was also some time in office in the Board of Ordnance, and had an inkling of the way they do business in the Sappers and Miners. 'Tis very ominous. Some talk of Colonel Sibtliorp making a descent upon Belfast to eclipse Tennant. - Gude save us! What would become of us, if any thing should put it into Kearsley's head, or Praed's, to come over ? IRELAND. SHANDRUNI.—The inquest on the body of the unfortunate man, Sweeny, has, after a protracted inquiry of four days, ter minated in the exculpation of the police. We understand, (says the Cork Constitution) that eleven of the jury concurred in the verdict which was afterwards given, but it was not until four o'clock on Sunday morning that the twelfth assented to the opinion of the majority, and the verdict which we published yesterday, was found. The Reverend Mr. Beresford has addressed a letter to the Mail, in which he complains of " a gross attack" made on him by the Dublin Post. The latter journalist, in refer ence to the imputation, says :—" We deny that we have made any gross attack on Mr. Beresford. We said merely that we were not sure whether he had any Protestants - in his parish. How he could construe such an hypothetical opinion as this into a gross attack, we cannot say. We find now, however, that we were in error, that their are Protestants in Inniscarra, and that on field days and festivals, he earns his 1,2001. a-year, by administering the Sacrament to thirty or forty communi cants. We learn further, that he never leaves his parish but with the consent of his superiors ; of course not, we never as serted that he did, or that he was ever refused that permission —and, finally, he assures us that the pistols were not at all va luable weapons, but almost useless, and borrowed from the dusty shelves of a gunsmith's shop. But Mr. Beresford ought to have recollected that we did not put a value upon his pistols—we borrowed the news from the report of the evi dence on the inquest. But useless as the pistols were they did their duty." LEVEE AT TILE CASTLE.-Wednesday afternoon his Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant held his first levee for the season at the Castle. It was attended by upwards of six hundred of the principal nobility and gentry, at present in Dublin. It was, in fact, one of the most splendid Levees ever witnessed in the Irish Court. • TITHES.NENAGH, JAN. 16.—This morning, at ten o'clock, a company of the 27th Regiment and a body of police, accom panied by the Sheriff,. and Mr. Philip Ryan, tithe agent, pro ceeded to the residence of Robert Otway Cave, Esq. On reaching the house, Mr. Ryan dismounted, and posted on the hall door six notices ; when returning, Mr. Ryan distrained several persons, most of whom settled. One gentleintm, a Protestant, who had been previously applied to at different periods, permitted his cattle to be brought into town and im pounded. Had the government afforded Mr. Ryan assistance, he would long since have settled the tithe question in this quarter.— Tipperary Constitution. STOPPAGE .01 , THE MAIL.—A very saucy and pragmatical sort of contradiction has been given to the statement of a gentleman, a passenger in the Cashel Mail, the night in which it was stopped and robbed of its arms. We anticipated as much—for we recollect that when a young gentleman tra velling outside on the mail which plies on the same line of road to Dublin, had a bullet driven through his hat at night, and his head grazed with a swan drop, the fact was disputed ; not as impudently as in the present case certainly, by those concerned in the Coach Establishment. What was it that caused the report to be made to Cork—(where it was not re quired)—or to Dublin, where it should be made of i neeessity ? —Cork Evening _Herald. Ma. O'CONNELL.—The Orangemen affect to be in alarm, poor fellows ; and Mr. Cosby has fortified his house, in ex pectation of the dinner. Nay, a requisition has been made by these loyalists to the Government for an aid of Military and Police. Government, we have reason to believe, are not under any apprehensions ; but they very properly, neverthe less, have ordered a squadroon of Dragoons, and an additional police force to the'spot.—Dublin Post. CARNARVON RAILWAY.—We are exceedingly pleased to find that a meeting will be held on Saturday, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the Carnarvon Railway. We understand that several respectable gentlemen have ar rived from Wales, for the purpose of assisting at the meeting. It is likely, in fact, to prove a very important one to Dublin end to Ireland. The first resolution, we hear, will be moved by Mr. Sergeant Woulfe, and seconded by the Recorder. Public men, of all parties, will, we are sure, combine on this occasion.—lbid. O'MULLIGAN.—This living lie—this embodied falsehood— this itinerant calumniating vagabond, has addressed a long letter to that journal that preached up and justified the murder of his fellow-countrymen, on the subject of the present oppo • .sition to blood money. We regret exceedingly that we cannot make room for the letter of the Ananias of parsons to the pal liator of murder.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. DROGHEDA RAILWAY.—The Corporation of Drogheda have unanimously given their consent to the coast line passing through their estates. THE " FRANCIS SPAIGHT."—The eleven surviving sufferers of this ill-fated ship arrived in Limerick on Saturday night, several of them frost-bitten, and in a state of such abject mi sery as to excite the deepest sympathy. They are in a state of utter exhaustion, and without any clothing save the few ar ticles charitably given them by soma of the inhabitants of Fal mouth. Such of the poor fellows as arc mutilated by the frost, are, of course, wholly unable to eArt themselves in any man ner to obtain a livelihood. It is the intention of several bene volent gentlemen to organise a subscription for them.—Lime- Tick Times. _ _ _ The Orange gathering in Belfast was tile most recent sam ple of splendid display upon paper. Of that specimen of ro mancing amplitude, in which eight hundred men in buckram were proudly displayed, we contented ourselves with an abridg ment, which, we dare say, gave more than truth warranted of the proceedings . Perhaps we were wrong in publishing a line on the subject, because, in all cases, where reporters arc excluded, it must be manifest that misrepresentation and false colouring are the objects of the getters up of such matters. — Dublin Post. A widow named Cavanagh was found murdered at Drangan, near Kilmoyler. She was returning from Tippera r y. No cause is assigned for the perpetration of this brutal outrage.-7V perary Free Press. - . - The Strand Theatre is announced in our columns for peremptory sale by Mr. George Robins. As the pro prietors intend to give immediate possession, a famous op portunity is presented to Theatrical Managers. The situation is unquestionably the best in London, whilst the Convenient size of the theatre, peculiarly adapted as it is for the lighter parts of the drama, ensures success, inas much as all unnecessary, and generally. .uSeless, expenses of theatrical management can be Avoided. COURT CIRCULAR. The Portuguese and Greek Ministers, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, and Mr. Colquhoun, transacted busi ness, yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister, had an inter view with Mr. Ponlett Thompson, yesterdhy, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Lord John Russell will give a grand Parliamentary din ner on the 3d of next month, at the residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street, There was an alarm of fire at the Foreign ()face ' yester day afternoon. A number of the engines, with the fire police, together with some of the workmen of the Woods and Forests, were in attendance in a short time. Parties of the Foet Guards and of the new police also arrived, and were placed on duty in Downing-street and Fludyer-street. The fire proceeded from a flue which passed through a room occupied by the librarian, at the back of the office in Fludyer-street. By prompt exertion the fire was quickly subdued, without having caused much damage. Viscount Palmerston, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and the Surveyor of Works and Buildings, were at the office during the fire. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace, from 'Addington Park, Surrey ; Lord Farnborough, at Whitehall gardens, from his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent ; the Countess of Guilford and Captain and Lady Doyle, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Surrey ; John Toiler Brown, Esq., at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's street, from North Ame rica ; Colonel Fitzgibbon, from Comb Lodge, Herts ; Mr. and Mrs. Platt, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat, Denne Park, Sussex ; Lord Morpeth, at his seat, Sandon Hall, from Ireland ; John Greig, Esq., at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn. street, from New York ; Mr. and Mrs. Hopgood, at ditto, from the Continent ; Robert Champ.. neys, Esq., at ditto, from Yorkshire; Rev. Hugh Champ neys, at ditto, from ditto ; Sir Montague and Lady Cholme ley, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets, from their heat, Lincolnshire; Mr. and Mrs. Green field, at ditto, from Hastings ; Major Slade, at Long's Hotel, Bond-street, from Ireland ; George Gent, Esq., of Moyns Park, Essex, at ditto ; Colonel Chaloner, of Portnal Park, Egham, at ditto ; H. V. Stuart, Esq., and Chas. V. Stuart, Esq., at ditto ; Lieut. Otway, R.N., at ditto, from Brigh ton ; General Bonham, at ditto, from his seat, in Essex ; J. Sickell, Esq., at ditto, from the Hague ; Rev. J. Lucy, at ditto, from Hampton Lucy ; Sir R. P. Jodrell, Bart., in Port land-place, from Nethercot House, Oxfordshire. DEPARTURES. Sir Francis and Lady Stapleton and family, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Henley-on-Thames ; Colonel Stapleton and Mr. Ponsonby, from ditto, for Berks ; Mr. and Mrs. Birch, from ditto, for Holley Lodge, Surrey; Mr. and Mrs. Austin, from Brook-street, for Bath ; William Colville, Esq., from Raggett's Hotel, Dover -street, for Paris; John Disney, Esq., from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Hyde, Ingatestone; Captain Lloyd, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Eliot, from ditto, for their seat, in Norfolk ; Thos. Greg, Esq., from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets, for Paris; J. King, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Phillipps, Esq., from ditt o , f or W a l es ; Harris, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; Lord Viscount Powers court, from Long's Hotel, Bond-street, for I-Iyde Hall ; Geo. Crauford, Esq., from ditto, for Oxford ; Wm. Maskell, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; T. N. Allen, Esq., from ditto, for the Vache Park; Major Penrice, from ditto, for Kilbrough Castle; Captain Lamb, from ditto, for Leamington. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. `CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 22. BACHELORS COMMENCEMENT.-LIST OF HONOURS AND DEGREES. MODERATORS.—SamueI Earnshaw, M.A., St. John's Col lege ; Henry Philpott, M.A., Catharine Hall. EXAMINERS.—John Harrison Evans, M.A., St. John's College ; Alexander Thurtell, M. A., Caius College. The following gentlemen obtained Honours at the Exami nation for B.A. which closed yesterday, and will be admitted to their Degrees this morning L:— WRANGLERS.—A. Smith, Trinity; Colenso, John; Robin-. son, John ; Aldam, Trinity; Pirie, Trinity ; Collison, John ; Lane, John ; Walton, Trinity ; Haslam, John ; Conway, Trinity, and Shepherd, Clare, Eq.; Smith, John ; Tozer, Caius ; Healey, Trinity ; W. Turner, Trinity; Atkinson, Trinity ; Headlam, Trinity ; S. Turner, Trinity ; Currey, Trinity ; Bates, Christ's; Clayton, Caius ; Lawson, John ; Lane, Caius ; Uwins, John ; Patterson, Corpus ; Farrand, Clare; Chapman, John ; Spading, John; Swinny, Magda len ; Calvert, Pembroke ; Gambier, Trinity ; Ansted, Jesus ; Fisher, Catharine ; Adcock, Clare. SENIOR OPTIMES.—Ayrton, Trinity, and Cooke, John, Eq. ; Walford, Trinity ; Whitelock, John ; Hubert, Christ's ; Lan don, Corpus; Hudson, John; Tennant, Trinity; Trapp, Clare ; Christopherson, John ; Hale, Trinity H. ; Duncan, Peterborough ; Verlander, John ; Davies, John : Keymer, Pembroke • Jennings, Trinity ; Westoby, Trinity ; Marsh, John ; Wilkins, Caius ; Colman, John ; May, Catharine; Parkes, Trinity ; Lykes, Magdalen • Bickersteth, Sid. ; Coles, Corpus ; F'ellowes, John ; Nicholson, Emmanuel ; Campbell, Trinity, and Chamberlain, Peterborough, Eq. ; Turner, R., Trinity ; Legard, Emmanuel; Ppllock, Trinity; Clark, John ; Jones, J., John ; Clarke, Queens' ; Kingdon, Queens' ; Palmes, Trinity ; Pierpoint, John ; Jones, W. John ; Cotton, Trinity, and Moore,. Magdalen, Eq. ; dsborne, Trinity ; Lynn, Christ's ' • Amphlett, Peterborough ; Roberts, Clare; Bateson, John ; Green, Christ's • Higgins, Corpus; Timins, Trinity ; Gilbert, John ; Keppel, Hn. T., Down. ; lirere, Trinity ; Hillman, Trinity ; Crow, Catharine ; Drage, Emmanuel, and Mansfield, Trinity, E-2,. ; Parker, Corpus; Bell, Queens'. JUNIOR OPTINIES.—Packer, Trinity ; Jones, Magdalen, and Nicholl, Trinity, Eq. ; Bennett, John; Baker, Caius; Eden, John ; G. Jeudwine, John, and Milner, Pembroke, Eq. ; Cooper, Peterborough ; Chapman, Calm ; Carnegie, Catha rine, and Pardoe, John; Phelps, John; Hoare, John . ; Hodg son, John; Thompson, Emmanuel; Thornton, Trinity ; Meade, Peterborough ; Thorp, Emmanuel ; Hore, Trinity ; Roughton, Emmanuel ; Smith, J. 1., Trinity, and Wilkinson, John, Eq. ; Cousins, Petersborough ; Salman, John ; Whit worth, Clare ; Browne, John ; Richardson, Trinity ; J ac k son , Pembroke : Simpson, Trinity ; Hardy, Trinity ; Moore, Queens' ; Nelson, Magdalen. PREFEamENTs.—The Rev. William Gillmore, M. A., has been presented to the Perpetual _ Curacy of Illingworth, on the nomination of the Rev. Charles Mulgrave, 8.D., Vicar of Halifax. - The Rev, Woodthorpc Collett, M.A., of Catharine Hall, in this University, was on the 14th inst. elected Head Master of the Free Grammar School, Woodbridge. There were thirteen► candidates. The Right Hon. the, Earl Furors has appointed the Rev. George IVightman, M.)1., Vicar of Clare, Suffolk, one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. The following will be the Subjects of Examination in the last week in the Lent Term, 1837: The Gospel of St. Luke. • Paley's Evidence of 02ristianity. The Hecuba of Euripides. The first book of Cicero de Oratore. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—We un derstand that the experiments, with a view to ascertain the degree of vibration caused by the passing of a train of carriages, will be made on the London and Greenwich Railway on Monday next, at two o'clock. These experi ments have been requested to be made by the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, in order to determine the ques tion as to the effect of the Gra% esend trains on the Royal Observatory, a subject which has lately so much occupied the attention of the scientific world. JAN. 21.—0 n Monday there was a con cert at a distinguished amateur's, Madame Merlin's, and a grand dinner at Sir C. and Lady Ogle's, which the Dukc of Devonshire and other distinguished guests attended. On the smile day, Prince de Talleyrand (who continues in a very weak state) was also to give a dinner to Lord and Lady Granville, the Duke and. Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and Lady Carlisle, and other - persons of note, but was compelled to put it off owing to the death'of the Du chess de Valencay's, daughter. On Tuesday'there was a grand reception at the Duchess de Broglie's, and a ball at the Countess d'Estourmes. Yesterday the Minister of Public Instruction, M. Guizot, gave a concert. To-day I am not aware of anything going on, which is probably owing in great measure to its being the anniversary of the murder of Louis XVI. To-morrow there is a soire at Lady Granville's, and a ball at the Duchess de Broglie's. On Saturday there is to be another grand ball at the Tuileries. The curlers on Mr. Carule's artificial pond at Largs have had eight days fine curling, notwithstanding the mildness of the climate there, and its proximity to the sea. The ice was as true as the best billiard table. SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. . . A ptiblic Stipper ? it seems, was lately given in Hanover, at which Puke of Cumberland attended, M'ade. a speech, whith we have copied from the , Germail P'oreirs: We have not read foe some time a Royal oration, did a Warsaw perhaps excepted, which has given us so much Mth-faction as this con- V . ifidl harangue. In vino veritas. The man spoke Withotit reserve, displaying his intimate heart t 8 aiiciielice His wife, he said, is a Hano verian ; he is half a Hanoverian in blood, and a whole one in principle, dtitli his' son is Hanoverian in every respect. He loves the pc* That are to be. They love their King that is to be. }Taffy Prince I Thrice happy people I They are worthy of each other, and seem destined to exhibit, at a future day, to the world a picture of patriarchal life, surpassin g ; even the felicity of the pri m itiv e ages . H anover , inSeect's is to be envied for the good fortune that awaits it—a • for tune which it ought not to put to hazard by suffering the 'heir to their Crown to exp a t r i a t e hi mse lf aga i n , even for a dAy. We zre sure that our good friends of Hanover will be glad to hear that, in case they should resolve to detain their amongst them selves, we should not perhaps go to war with them upon that account. We think we might spare him. We have Lord Kenyon still, and Lord Wnyford, and Lord Roden, and Colonel or Captain Fairman. These personages will console us for the absence of his Royal Highness. To be sure, the edifying example of the numerous virtues and talents, and of the incom parable wisdom by which he is distinguished, will be seriously missed here in these degenerate days. The mi litary men will lament the absence of his mustachios — the Lords will feel the loss of his eloquence—the ladies of Kew and its neighbourhood will mourn over the exile of that chivalrous demeanour, by which the. Hanoverian and his horses have been at all times sig nalised. But notwithstanding all these drawbacks, when we consider how very much the climate of this country has disagreed with his Royal Highness since the Reform Bill was carried, we do think, upon the whole, that he may remain in what he seems to con sider his own country. Englishmen, we are sure, have too much politeness to insist upon his coming over, even for the next Session of Parliament. If he have need of a dispensation, we shall endeavour to procure it for him ; and if, after a year or two, he should get tired of Hanover, and should have a fancy for a trip to Petersburg, or Pekin, to " Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows where," we think-that we may promise him a writ of exert, provided only that it be not returnable. Morning Chronicle: The speech of Lord Sandon, delivered on Tuesday evening at the Tradesmen's Conservative Association Of Liverpool, will be read with pleasure by the friends of the British Constitution, and may help to instri;:t its enemies. The general spirit of the Noble Lord's speech cannot be thought unseasonable at a period which is none of the best, ,and while men who rank among the worst that have yet disturbed the repose or well-being of the empire push themselves into a pro minence and a notoriety which capacitate them for. accomplishing the most pernicious objects. The rest less character of what is called the " movement" in. this country seems to be understood by the numerous intelligent and industrious class of citizens who con stitute the Tradesmen's Association of LiVerpool, and who recognize in the experimental nature and inter minable succession of the changes for which the " movement" party appears to be insatiably thirsting, a principle of disturbance to all order, and of destruction to every branch of peaceful pros perity, which requires to be effectually resisted. A sagacious observer of the progress and the affairs of nations beholds with instinctive circumspec tion and distrust, each and every change which iS re commended in the ancient laws and institutions of a. state. He does not, indeed, pertinaciously refuse to hear or consider the arguments by which new schemes of government are- supported, or to give way when satisfied of the preference due to them, over the objec tions whereby they are met ; but the bias, the predis position, of a sound statesman is and ought to be ad verse to innovation. It is his nature to demand proof of the preponderance of evil in that which exists, before he destroys it, and of the efficacy of the cure in that which is desired, before he resorts to it ; whereas it is the nature of " movement" to throw the onus on him who declares his satisfaction with the system. in herited from his forefathers. The innovator withholds his faith or approval from the results of experiments already tried, and eagerly gives his confidence to those which never have been. He contemns facts, and idolizes projects. It is manifest that such a temper as this, when brought into play upon the incessant action and the multiplied interests of large masses of men, will often jump to conclusions which a patient search into circumstances would compel it gravely to repudiate. There is nothing, again, more certain than that such a movement once begun will not sink into quiescence at the mandate of its authors. Firouz Schab, of the Arabian Nights, when he mounted the infernal steed, could impel, but was unable td restrain him. It need scarcely now he stated that the Conservative power of this country is not one which reprobates the correction of 'abuses, but which, with Sir Robert Peel, the great leader of Conservatism in the House of Commons, calls for, and anxiously prepares, and organizes that correction, as the most solid guarantee of those insti tutions round which abuse has crept, and which have been overgrown and encumbered by it. We should like to know what one class of grievances the Right Hon. Baronet has excluded from the catalogue of those which in his Tamworth letter, and by his sub sequent votes last session, he pledged himself tho roughly to redress ? The commutation of tithe, the re lief of the Dissenters, the internal reform of the church, the municipal reform (for which in principle and in most of its details he voted)—what is there, we, ask, 'in the nature, and bearing any semblance of reform, of which the people of the United Kingdom are not more assured from Sir Robert Pei than from that motley, unquiet, and imbecile crew of which Lord Melbourne is the nominal chief, and O'Connell essen tially' the tvrant Is it a disqualification of Sir R. Peel and his Conservative supporters, that the Duke of Wellington and the peerage give them their cordial support, and the King his frank and cheerful confi &nee ? Is it any honour to Lord Melbourne - and the rump, that the King, who proved himself a stanch Reformer, when he bravely cheered on Lord Grey in 1832, now treats that offal- Ministry, which was aban doned by Lord Grey, with a degree of coldness indi cative of disapprobation and disgust ? Is it no ground of suspicion against these Ministers, that in proportion as his Majesty has withdrawn from them, Mr. Daniel O'Connell has shed the lurid light of his countenance upon them—Mr. Daniel O'Connell, who has declared the Protestant Church to be an intolerable nuisance— who has denounced the House of Lords, after the fashion of the king killing Parliament, as an intole rable nuisance—who has even within these six days proclaimed himself anew the unrelenting champion of " Repeal of the Union "—who has never dis avowed, because he durst not, the execution of a formal league and covenant referred to by Mr. Sheil, as the work of Lichfield-house—and who has assigned em phatically as his justification for his upholding this Government of the quondam, base, and bloody Whigs, that he had not approximated towards the Whigs, but still remained what he. ever had been—that it was the Whigs who had come over to him, being no longer the Whigs of four years ago—that is, Whi b s -, ` of the stamp of Lords Grey and Stanley—but move merit Whigs, lit confederates of Derrynane and May-' nouth ? With these things before their eyes, - is it ex traordinary that the intelligent and soberminded trades men of this country. should begin to form Conservative or Anti-rump, that is, anti-ruinous, Associations ? Associations ? Is it accountable that, they should have hailed Lord Sandon with shouts of applause and exultation when ire talked to them of this their native country, which placed no harriersbetween the highest nobility and the humblest artisan, but made the most illustrious offices of Church and State-:--the throne itself (through a policy sanctioned by the profoundest wisdom) excepted —open to the Englishman of hum blest parentage, and owing least to any human suc,, cour but that o f hi s own persona l . deserts ? Nor in hisimplied warning against the visitations of extreme democracy did Lord. Sandon meet a less discerning or less cordial. acceptance from his hearers, the Liverpool triO s esmen, Here, on English ground, however extra- vagant may be a man's opinions, by how few' soever of his countrymen they may be shared, and no matter how numerous those whose interests the propageion of such sentiments may menace, yet at all times, uin!er all cliscouragements, every Englishman dares to speak what he thinks, and he does it u nmolested by the majority from whom he differs. l-; ere law and habitual tolerance of opposition assist a.nd reinforce each other. Is that so in every case where democracy is established, or where its name and prufessions are usurped ? In the United States the ruling; power is a broad and unmitigated democracy ; and what then ? How fares liberty., of act, of speech, of writing in that Commonwealth ? It exists fur the majority, but for that alone. Those who think with the minority must mute, or often times. they are murdered. .Tocquevillc tells us that there never existed on the face of God's earth a more ruthless tyrant than the many-headed Sovereign of North America, nor a more terrible scourge of persecution than is inflicted b y - that tyrant on those who dare, by word or deed, to combat' his arbitrary pleasure. Lynch law, under the real democ -acy of North America, is akin to TVP Hal e and O'Connell law, under the hypocritical and lying sham democracy of Ireland ; it is the law of the pike, the rope, the knife, ana the faggot. We are mistaken if in both parts of the still United Kingdom, these manly defences of life and property—Conservative As sociations—do not rapidly spread, until they embrace the whole moral force of a reflecting and high-prin cipled nation.— Times. It seems now pretty evident that the Corporation of • London wants the requisite virtue and energy to un dertake with sincerity and earnestness the work of its own reform. Nearly two years have now elapsed since the Common Council first took, or affected to take, the matter in hand, and it does not appear that, since March 1834, up to the present time, the work of re form . has advanced a single step. Government is, therefore, furnished with a very plausible pretext for taking the reform of the Mctropclitan Corporation into its own hands, and cutting and orving the mu nicipal leviathan after its own taste and fashion. Tame and insipid, indeed, was the debate in the Com mon Council on the subject of civic reform, com pared with the importance of the question and the magnitude of the. interests at stake. There was a title when the Common Council contained a few men, at least, who knew the value of the privileges, in a public and constitutional point of view, which they were ap pointed to guard, and who were not afraid to express a wholesome jealousy of any encroaching interference on the part of the Ministers of the Crown, be those MiniS ters of this Or that political party. The political inde pendence of the Corporation of London has concerned, and • ought to concern, the whole empire. In that Corporation is seen an epitome of the Constitution it se Lf. Like the Constitution it has fallen by time d e f e ,-ts that ought to be repaired, and into abuses that ought to be reformed ; but it would not be for the public that the principle of the old advantage of the Saxon popular G ov - ,-.rnment, upon which it was mo delled, should be destro' ved, and the Corporation which • braved tyranny in the wor, -- t of times in the high places of the land, be converted into' a species of subordinate Government Board eastward of Temple-bar. In con sequence of the invasion of the c darter of the city of London in the licentious and arNtrary reign of Charles 11., and the renewed attempts upon the inde pendence of the Corporation by the Papal bigot James 11., to which we alluded the other day, an Act was passed soon after the Revolution of 1688, to guarantee the corporate rights and privileges of the citizens of London in perpetuity. The Statute, which was passed in the second year of William and Mary, enacts that the franchises of the city of London shall never be forfeited again for any cause whatsoever. If the mem bers of the Corporation value 'those franchises as their ancestors did, and if they would wish to be con sidered as trustworthy guardians, as their ancestors were, of valuable popular privileges, why have they so shrunk from the necessary work of reforming the abuses into which the Corporation has fallen that they invite, as it were, the Executive Government to take the work upon itself, and remodel the Corporation in a manner the most satisfactory to a Minister of the Crown, and most inconsistent. with the principles and objects of its original institution ? By the adoption of the motion of Mr. Pritchard in the Common Council the other day, the whole matter seems indeed to be abandoned into the hands of Government, and the Corporation that used to talk so highly of its Tighto and. franchises, yields them without a struggle, because a Whig Ministry call for the surrender. For our own part we discuss the question upon principle, and upon the same princi ple we would have contended a g ainst such a sur render being - made to a Tory - Ministry, for both Tory and Whiz Administrations have been but too prone to strengthen their own power, whenever op portunities offered, by destroying the independence of our ancient poptilar institutions. Even now the servile Journals of the Ministry- are exultin g ; in the notion that the Municipal Reform Bill has been it complete delu sion upon the public—that its great objecr was not to purify the Corporations of their acknowledged abuses, but to convert them into State machinery for vorking the Parliamentary elections in a manner favourable to the establishment of a Whig oligarchy, .thereby teractina tire -professed object of Lord Grey's Reform Bill, which was to secure complete independence and purity of election to the people. In making his mo tion for referring the matter to a Committee of the whole Court, Mr. Pritchard certainly made a great mistake in supposing that he could, either in lbw or fact, identify the Committee of the whole Court of the present year with that of the defunct, Common Coun:a of 1834 ; but we perceive from the report that, upon a suggestion from the Lord Mayor, he subsequently altered his motion so as to leave out all reference to the former Court of Common Council. It is un necessary, therefore, to say anything more on that; point, but we observe. that he alluded to the report of the Commissioners of Municipal Inquiry being nearly ready, and folloWed' that up by saying that "as a measure based upon it would be • introduced into Parliament, it became necessary to appoint per sons to negotiate with the Government upon a ques ,tion of such vital importance." The fact is, we be lieve, that, . although the 'Commissioners have not vet made their report, the -Ministerial Bill for the re modelling of the London Corporation is already drawn --and we further believe that. nothing that was said or done in the Common Council on Thursday last, will have any effect in Causing Government to forego its inten tion, or to make any essential alteration in the provi sions of its Bill. We have given some information to the public concerning the pecuniary jobbing by Com mittees of the Connnon Council, which, we stated at the time, 4 -wc had reason to suppose would not appear in the forthcoming report of Commissioners. We trust those Commissioners will linW inquire into those matters from the sources of inform a tion which we pointed out, or else that report will have more.the ap pearance of concealing abuses than disclosing - them ; but abuses must be known that they may he reme died. Severely did Mr. Stevens characterise the peculiar patriotism of the Common Council when he stated that " the right way of getting together large numbers was not adopted. If a 500/. enterthinment in the naviga tion barge had been likely to result, there would have been up small muster." Well might, Sir Peter Laurie exclaim that lie " was somewhat sur3rised at the ad mission of Mr. Stevens that a feed to the amount of 500/., would accomplish what the sense of duty could not by any means induce the patriotic members of the Common Council to do. What! the m embers of that Court not act without pay ? " This cut of Mr. Stevens' against the self-denying virtues of civic pa r trion was, indeed, " the unkindest, cut (A all." It showed that a well-provisioned naviga tion-bar g e was. in their eves a far more animating stimuluste othertoexe u clay, than a disinterested regard for the public interest s ! The bill of particulars, whic h. we nave h as to thf , 7,oi)t /. annually divided for dinner s , at tmilancsx.ac., was not. alluded.,:t.o.-''..That suni might f Flo a good deal ii:atikleifwiatywoepre otilllllyieto save thatiniproVeient the metropolis, n sum for useful public purposes a reforM of the London Cor poration would be worth the labour.—Mort. Herald. From the several articles of interesting intelligence relating to the present state of Ireland, which we have inserted iii another part of our paper of this day, it will be seen that even in that country the law seems likely to prove t oo s t rong , for its confederated enemies, ~\